What are some signs of HD failure?

[ric0chet06]

I just bought a new 400 gig SATA WD hard drive a month ago. I just tried to turn my pc in my sig on, and it was just stuck at a blank screen. I put my ear next to the HD, and it's making a sound like something is off balance, a weird vibrating sound. ( the HD is in a silencer, so usually it's dead quiet) Whenever it loads something, like TF2, it makes a LOUD sound too. I know it can't be vibration that's making all the noise, since it has rubber feet that screw onto the rails to secure it. Are these signs that it's failing? I had to reset the CMOS to get it to startup.

 

[NXIL]

Are these signs that it's failing?

Yes.

http://www.associatedcontent.c..._failure_symptoms.html

http://forums.vnunet.com/message.jspa?messageID=603071

Hope data is backed up....if not, back up if you can, then RMA.

GL

HTH

NXIL

 

[ric0chet06]

Awesome, thanks NXIL. Anyone recommend a program that can backup everything (including XP) onto a external HD and boot off of that temporarily while i send my drive off for repair?

 

[j0j081]

a really good sign of failure is when it randomly stops working.

 

[NXIL]

Shadowprotect:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2254460,00.asp

Acronis also gets good reviews:

http://www.acronis.com/homecom...ng/products/trueimage/

Good reading:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2278663,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2259200,00.asp

As for booting from an external drive, I think that an imaged drive could do that, assuming the motherboard's BIOS supports booting from an external device.

HTH

NXIL

 

[Pelu]

1. they start running when they want, when you turn on the computer.

2. do some strange noises. HDD are well known for their particular sound... some of them are more noise than others.. but plz.. understand that a ROAR is not normal... and by the way they dont sound like a Roll Royce Turbine...

3. it runs slower than it should... you computer can get slower... computers get slower all the time.. you have to do a HDD benchmark to see if they are working fine...

4. missing data...

5. stop working compleatly... you dont each the internal disks engine running

6. you hear some strange sounds like someone is hitting a door if their finger tips, (dunno other comparison of the sound) actuator arm hitting from side to side... usually meand full dead of the drive...

7. some strange short and computer turn off.. or lot o smoke comes from drive...